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Molek, Carol – 1988
This report and reference booklet is designed to provide adult education supervisors, instructors, and General Educational Development (GED) students and alumni with information to establish GED alumni associations as part of the adult basic education program. The final report details the GED Alumni Stretch and Reach project, which was proposed to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Alumni, Alumni Associations, Guides
Tucker, John D. – 1987
The purpose of a project was to develop a comprehensive distance learning system for undereducated adults not being served through traditional adult education classroom instruction. Odessa College (Texas) developed and implemented a televised delivery system for General Educational Development that complemented and supplemented existing adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Distance Education, Educational Television
Washington-Greene County Community Action Corp., Waynesburg, PA. – 1991
A project was conducted in Pennsylvania to strengthen the Greene County General Educational Development (GED) alumni association and to create a GED alumni association in Washington County. Four activities were conducted to strengthen the Greene County chapter: (1) a newsletter was produced; (2) an awards banquet was held; (3) a schedule of…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Students, Alumni, Alumni Associations
Download full textWashington-Greene County Community Action Corp., Waynesburg, PA. – 1993
An existing 353 project that used professional staff as distance education contact persons for students in General Educational Development (GED) programs in rural areas was modified so that volunteer instructional aides (IAs) could serve as contact persons for GED students choosing the program's home study option. A home study packet to be used in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Distance Education, High School Equivalency Programs
Hawk, Kim; And Others – 1993
The Anthology of Inmate Art project was a 353 Special Demonstration Project to encourage prison inmates enrolled in adult basic education/General Educational Development (ABE/GED) programs to create and publish their own works of art, poetry, and other creative writing. In addition to gaining experience in creative writing and discussing poetry,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Anthologies, Art Activities, Computer Literacy
White, G. Ray; Pruitt, Katy – 1987
Job Training Partnership Act funds were provided for the Options for Young Mothers project in a mid-sized Texas community. The program was developed and 14 clients were selected. The main components of the program were life skills, General Educational Development (GED) training, counseling, and basic skills training and job placement (Jobs). The…
Descriptors: Counseling, Daily Living Skills, Early Parenthood, Federal Legislation
Green, Anson M. – 1998
Students in the Culebra Road GED/JOBS (General Educational Development/Job Opportunities and Basic Skills) class, an adult education class for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) students, created their own website. First, students completed a computer literacy survey to gauge their computer skills. Next, students were encouraged to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Computer Uses in Education, High School Equivalency Programs
Austin Community Coll., TX. – 1995
To provide transition opportunities for adult education students while preparing them for their General Educational Development (GED) test, Austin Community College (ACC) developed a program called GED Plus. A variety of information sources, including orientation sessions, brochures, telephone inquiries, and site visits to partner agencies, were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Articulation (Education), Career Awareness
Merlin, Shirley B. – 1996
The report describes the development and implementation of an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program for limited-English-proficient employees of the poultry industry. The program, undertaken at James Madison University (Virginia), was funded initially in 1991 by the federal government and has continued with funding from two poultry companies.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Laborers, English (Second Language), High School Equivalency Programs
Green, Anson M. – 1998
The Culebra Road GED/JOBS (General Educational Development/Job Opportunities and Basic Skills) class provides recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) with remedial academic instruction, job preparedness training, and training in parenting skills. At the suggestion of one of its students, the class undertook a project that…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Class Activities, Dropout Prevention
Connections: A Journal of Adult Literacy, 1985
These nine articles reflect the diversity of activities taking place in adult education and adult literacy in the Boston area. An introduction briefly describes each article; notes on the authors follow. In "A Different Third 'R'--Radical Math," Marilyn Frankenstein describes a mathematics course that, through content and method, both…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Northwest Iowa Community Coll., Sheldon. – 1995
This report documents how the Business/Training Institute of Northwest Iowa Community College and Coilcraft, Inc., of Hawarden, Iowa, worked as partners to establish a basic workplace skills program for Coilcraft's workers. The project goals were to develop and offer a workplace literacy program that would enroll 160 workers and prepare them to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Community Colleges
Reyes, Lolita C. – 1992
The Star Team Acquiring Rewards in Literacy and Insights Through Education (STARLITE) program was implemented to improve the job proficiency of employees at the Pacific Star Hotel, Guam. Its goal was to provide employees with both workplace literacy skills and employability skills. An audit was completed in each department of the hotel. Modules…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Literacy
Massachusetts Career Development Inst., Springfield. – 1994
This final report documents the development of a workplace literacy program for 100 employees of the Geriatric Authority of Holyoke, Massachusetts (GAH), a major nonprofit nursing home and rehabilitation facility. It describes how GAH employees received instruction in English as a Second Language, adult basic education, and General Educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Allied Health Personnel, Basic Skills
Lake County Coll., Grayslake, IL. – 1994
The College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois, formed an educational and business partnership with four area businesses to design and implement workplace literacy programs targeted to the needs of each business. The project's four objectives were as follows: develop a model of cooperation between a community college and the business community…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
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